Martin Webb Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Collaborate with fellow members of Board of Directors to create strategic plans, brainstorm business process improvements, and provide direction on execution of business plans. Actively support establishment of new business ventures and organizational expansion by leveraging experience in infrastructure asset development, negotiation, and operations in global power markets. ‣ As founder and former CEO, pioneered early push to off-set South Africa’s heavy dependence on fossil fuels on the one hand, and sweeping power outages across South Africa on the other.‣ Proactively support training and recruitment of young professionals and up-skilling of local technical staff to maintain and operate the growing fleet of renewable energy infrastructure across the region.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Founded and headed EDF Renewables in South Africa (formerly Innowind Pty Ltd), a renewable energy power operator. Built and led cross-functional teams, directed execution of all operations, project development, project financings, and implementation of project portfolios. ‣ Held multiple roles as CEO, Senior Advisor and Board Member, following majority-stake acquisition by French renewable energy utility EDF Renewables (https://www.edf-renouvelables.com/en/) in 2012. ‣ Presided over development and implementation of fleet of greenfield projects totaling circa 1GW.

Award-winning digital solar platform enabling world-class solar power solutions for businesses and organizations in emerging markets via a crowdfunding model. Through its peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform, Sun Exchange funded and powered over 75 businesses, schools, farms, and other organizations across South Africa through decentralized (crowd)funding at no upfront cost to the host off-taker, thereby maximizing offtaker’s energy resilience through the worst of South Africa’s load-shedding power crisis while minimizing their carbon foot-print. For their part, participating solar-cell (crowdfunder) owners offset their carbon footprint while earning from clean electricity sales to their host off-taker.Served as interim CEO through critical transition period.

London, England, United Kingdom

Recruited by The AES Corporation, a Fortune 500 global power utility and developer, as Director of Business Development to grow its renewable power generation business in Europe, reporting to the CEO of AES Wind Generation in Arlington VA, USA. Later promoted to Regional Director for the southern Africa region to lead power project development in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique, reporting to the CEO of AES Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) in London UK.‣ Led early delivery of market-entry acquisitions for AES Wind in continental Europe, closing AES' first wind asset portfolio acquisition totalling 600MW (https://www.power-eng.com/renewables/wind/aes-expands-wind-generation-business-into-france-and-bulgaria/). Subsequently transferred to AES South Africa.‣ Established AES EMEA’s 3000MW greenfield project pipeline in southern Africa region, while heading-up partner negotiations, institutional relations, regulatory affairs, and team development across the region (https://www.miningweekly.com/article/us-government-supports-american-firm-and-bee-partner-in-their-bid-for-sa-peakingpower-project-2006-06-30/searchString:AES%20mozambique).

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

London Uk / Madrid Spain / Sydney Australia

Enron Europe, based in London, was one of the largest commodity-trading organizations in the world. Enron traded in European, Australian, and Japanese electricity, European natural gas markets, and worldwide oil, credit, and metals markets. As such, Martin's experience at Enron spanned employment in London, mainland Europe (Madrid), and Australia (Sydney).

Warwickshire Uk / South America

PowerGen PLC (formerly)

Tx Usa / Jakarta Indonesia

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Ecole Supérieure De Commerce (Escp)

MBA

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

MEng